Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely.

嗯，我想，我已经丢了一半的工作了，我还不如彻底放弃算了。

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In the process he uncovered numerous lost works, almost half of which were written by African-American women.

在这个过程中，他发现了许多丢失的作品，其中几乎一半是由非裔美国妇女写的。

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By the early eleventh century, however, the empire had regained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontiers were secure, and its influence extended far beyond its borders.

然而，到11世纪早期，帝国已收复了几乎一半的失地，新的边境得到了保障，其影响力远远超出了国界。

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But he missed from about two and a half meters, and then lost in a playoff to American Stewart Cink.

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So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

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We got lost for like half an hour or so. That was fine.

我们迷路了大约半个小时。那还好。

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Roughly half is lost as heat and nearly 10% more is lost during transmission.

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Of the 1m jobs created in the building industry between 1990 and 1997, nearly half were lost when the government later cut public spending.

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